Debut games included Kuroko's Basketball for PSP at fourth place, Ubisoft's Sniper Elite V2 for PS3 at 12th, and Idea Factory's L.G.S. for PSP at 25th.

Persona 4 Arena dropped to 11th place from last week, when it just made the top 10.

Hardware sales for the Wii, pushed up to 41,561 units last week because of Dragon Quest 10, fell to 15,916. Overall, console and handheld purchases dipped slightly, except for the PlayStation Vita and and PlayStation 2, which grew by a small number. Mostly, these changes were insignificant.

Below are the top ten software sales for August 6 through August 12, along with publisher, release date, and lifetime sales in parentheses.